| Show Ambassador Hay is certainly living like a prince in London though he does represent a republic For his house in Carlton House Terrace he pays for three months 3000 guineas or within 2000 of his salary He also took to London his own horses and carriage Upon these the London Telegraph comments as follows Among the interesting In-teresting features of American life to be seen in London just now are the ambassadors am-bassadors horses Everybody associates associ-ates American horses with a spidery looking road wagon or a gig and imagines im-agines that the animals themselves agnes should be lean tall and narrow as well as able to trot a mile In two minutes min-utes The carriage horses which have just been brought over by Hr Hay dispjay none of the unpleasant characteristics charac-teristics of the American trotter On the contrary they are well conducted exceedingly handsome steppers such as would command attention any day for their beauty at Aldridgea or Tat I tersalls There are five of them two for the brougham and two for the landau I lan-dau with a stylish cob for the use of Miss Hay In Hyde park The two American vehicles attract more attention atten-tion in London than the steeds Both are by the most fashionable New York carriage builder are rubber tired exquisitely ex-quisitely varnished and polished and they have the monogram J H In i light colors on the doors The pecu iarity of these carriages from across I the water is their lightness They seem to combine to a remarkable degree I de-gree the strength which American millers had to arrange for in the trot ting wagons and sulkies with lightness light-ness Colonel Hay evidently believes when in Rome doing as the Romans do though he does almost seem tofbe outdoing out-doing the Londoners themselves |
